Several key economic reports were released today highlighting a broad and strong U.S. economy with a very strong labor market.
♦ The first quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) [DATA HERE] The first estimate is for growth at 2.0 percent. At first glance that is lower than we expected; however, a deeper look shows a large increase in imported goods that are deductions to the equation. The imported goods increased 25.8% more than the fourth quarter of 2025 [Table 1.1], that led to a net -1.30 percent deduction [Table 1.5].
The jump in imports is a result of massive capital expenditures on tools and equipment for the ongoing manufacturing boom. All the manufacturing machines and industrial tools that are not made in the USA become imported goods deducted from our economic valuation.
Exports were very strong rising 12.9 percent over the prior quarter. However, the 25.8% increase in imports created a net deduction from GDP (-1.30%). The last time we imported this much was just before the tariffs went into place and companies were rushing advanced orders, in the first quarter of 2025; this created a rebound effect in the second quarter.
I estimate the second quarter rebound will be even greater this year because we are exporting massive amounts of oil and LNG right now. Simultaneously, the capital expenditure imports will likely soften.
GDP Table 1.1 highlights the jump in imports. (Percent change vs prior quarter):
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GDP Table 1.5 highlights the impact on overall GDP Calculations: -2.62 imports +1.32 exports = -1.30 net deduction.
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♦ Meanwhile the Dept of Labor (DoL) weekly report on unemployment claims showed U.S. jobless claims have dropped to their lowest level in more than 50 years. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, initial applications for unemployment benefits fell by 26,000 to 189,000 for the week ending Friday (April 25), far below the 214,000 new claims analysts had expected. [DATA HERE] This marks the lowest number of new filings since September 1969.
We continue to see the trend where halted illegal migration and ongoing deportation operations are driving up wages and bringing people off the sidelines for work. The jobless claims reflect a stable and growing economy and strength in employment.
♦ The Mid-East gulf oil crisis is keeping oil prices high which has led to an increase in overall energy and gasoline prices. This is boosting the inflationary numbers; however, the optimistic perspective is that these price increases will subside in the longer term as the Iran issue is resolved.
Funny how “experts” like to exclude energy prices from their economic analysis of inflation when they are falling but put them front and center when they are rising, especially when President Trump is at the helm.
I am a little less optimistic that imports fall next quarter all that much. The large AI build out is requiring 100s of billions in chip imports from Taiwan. All the main buyers (Meta, Amazon, Apple, Google) just announced massive CapEx increases on top of already huge numbers.
Transportation Engineer here. (Truck driver)
Flatbed trailers are the equipment used (far and away) to move Industrial component freight.
“Flatbed” is on fire!!
All day long, on the highways and byways, I see Rebar, angle Iron, Pipe, Copper, Flat Rolled Steel/Aluminum, Industrial Grade Glass, Huge Factory Condensing Cooling units, and much, much more.
The “Tender rejection rate” for Flatbeds (previous contracts rejected in favor of more lucrative ventures) is going vertical.
Many states (Maine, Connecticut, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, etc) are having a rough time coming to grips with having to offer substantially more $$$ for someone to show up with a Flatbed trailer to haul their freight.
Again, the Midwest, is especially busy for Flatbed.
Things are being built there.
Big things.
Once those big things are up and running, they will need a work force.
The light at the end of the tunnel is Rollin into town…
🚚Toot🚛Toot🚚
I live less than 5 miles from the giant hole in the ground that is supposed to be the future Intel mfg facility. They were slow walking the construction until recently. Hoping its up and running very soon!
High quality heavy equipment (big, powerful tools that can get the job done right) are understandably in high demand (seen a bunch of them rollin along, as well).
They are contracted to be in a certain place for a set period of time.
This large equipment is usually very heavy; wider or longer than the Flatbed they sit on; require permits (per state) to travel, and that travel time may be restricted to daylight hours or law enforcement escort.
Many moving parts.
Also, all the heavy equipment (industrial building stuff, Rebar, pipes, copper, too) needs to be choreographed (if you will) to arrive on time and depart the construction site when their task is completed.
Would be prudent to make sure all the ducks are in a row before starting that process.
The most difficult heavy equipment to pin down (for a defined period) doesn’t come cheap. And the next customer that has contracted this equipment (300 miles away) is standing at their hole in the ground, hands on hips and an eye on the horizon! (Insert Mr Bean Gif here 😄)
It can get complicated.
And pricey.
Once the job is done, the most in demand (and most difficult to wrangle) equipment is loaded up and moves to the next gig.
The giant hole in the ground you mentioned, may have been waiting for bureaucratic reasons, or the specific equipment/supplies availability, or both. Dunno.
Flatbeds meet hole 🤭
Lol
“Transportation Engineer here. (Truck driver)…” It is always nice to hear from someone who does real work. Thanks!
Most Welcome, Greg
I’ve gotten more out of it than I’ve put into it.
(Except for the Flatbed years.. lol)
good point touching on the phenomena of “regulatory redistribution”
Hear,Hear!
Thanks for the lesson as well.
I used to complain about all of the 18 wheeler traffic on the road. Not anymore. It’s a beautiful site to see them moving down the highway, day and night. During the Covid hoax I kept telling my wife that if the big trucks stop moving, equipment isn’t being delivered and WalMart’s shelves aren’t being stocked. I’m sure we all remember the empty shelves of toilet paper and other paper products, cleaning supplies and other staples.
Here in Arizona it’s the same flatbeds with drywall cement blocks going by every day my own unincorporated town of San Tan Valley is soon to become an official and largest city in Pinal County and the powers to be are thinking of building a new downtown
Interesting…are you near Queens Creek?
I ask because we will be snooping” around Arizona later this year with an intent to buy if we can find something that fits.
As Canadians we are we are familiar with Scottsdale but not much else and it is a bit pricey
Cheers!
If you go to Queen Creek visit this place for a fun and informative tour and a nice place to get lunch, to boot!
https://www.queencreekolivemill.com/
Thank you!
We will be heading down late in the fall..and will try and do that.
🥂
San Tan Valley is near Queen Creek. Both in the southeast valley. I am up in the north valley (Desert Hills/Anthem). Our area is exploding as a result of the TMSC plant construction. New homes, apartments, tiny homes, businesses, schools etc all planned. Hoping the State can build the appropriate infrastructure for all the traffic. (course we have KKK Katie Hobbs as GOV so who knows). Home prices have skyrocketed throughout the valley. Hope you can find something reasonable.
Cheers!
Do not return until you investigate north Scotts area of Carefree and Cave Creek. My favorite hoods in the state.
👍👍
Extremely reasonable down south in Sierra Vista, and quirky small town charm next door, over here in Tombstone.
Much less hot than the valley, and a great escape from the crush and crowds of the big city.
Thank you!
Indeed, JJ.
Flatbeds will bring in the building blocks.
Sounds like there is going to be some serious growth in-between Phoenix and Casa Grande!
Back in the day, used to deliver rolled aluminum to the soda plant in Casa Grande.
Seemed kinda quiet out your way.
Times are changing, I reckon.
You have my respect.
Stepdad was an over the road driver with a CDL for a long time. Pulled lots of trailers just about everywhere east of the Mississippi over the years with different outfits.
Then did some more local hauls for a few more years out of Wichita.
When I first met him some 30+ years ago he was hauling wood chips to the papermill in Central Maine.
Most kind, R F!!
You know, I had never considered “trucking” as a possibility.
After leaving the service, I stayed with family for a few months while adjusting to civilian life.
Well, one day, I was “encouraged” to go for a ride along with a family friend who was a truck driver. I initially declined. Mother insisted 🥴, and, well, that was that.
Some folks take to it.
Some, not so much.
I was sure I was in the second group.
Three months later I was in CDL school.
It gets in the blood, as they say.
Much respect for your Stepdad!!
East of the Mississippi is quite different than to the West.
It’s just different.
Never did warm up to it.
Not to say it’s less than. Far from it. It takes a special breed to “make a livin” driving a truck out there.
I could tell of a few stories.
Like how the GWB (George Washington bridge) would command a figurative pound of flesh in tolls. One figured out quick that taking the Tappen Zee bridge was much cheaper if you were passing through New York to somewhere else.
Then there’s the winter driving for a 18-wheeler going through the interstate highways in Pennsylvania. Dangerous with any significant snowfall pulling a heavy load.
One of the problems I remember from him on the east coast was keeping track of which routes you can take to get to places because of bridge height clearances. The cities out here were just built differently.
That they are RF.
The GW is a nightmare!!
The Tappen Zee was my choice as well, when heading up to Vermont to Pick up “Ben & Jerry’s”.
Tappen Zee was demolished (2016-’17, I think) and a new bridge takes its place (Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge).🙄
Was forced to take the GW when I made deliveries to Long Island.
The low clearances were a definite problem.
Even if you figured you had 4″-6″ clearance, you never knew if they had repaved the road with a few inches of new pavement or, in winter, if there was several inches if snow/ice on the road.
Gotta have an extra measure of grit to frequent the NorthEast.
FOR SURE
“because of bridge height clearances”….. A friend recently found a great deal on a used backhoe… hired a company to haul it to his home for him… guy had been hauling for decades… boom was about 4 inches too high when (at 40) went (partly) through the overpass and ripped that backhoe A.. over teakettle off that trailer (it was chained on)… now an Insurance claim!
Dunno if that is better than the one I heard about in the Maine Army National Guard.
They had one of those trucks assigned to the Transportation Company that could load containers on it some years ago smack the underside of one of the interstate highway overpasses in either Portland or South Portland Maine. I-95, or I-295.
Thinking it was a HEMTT variant but this one had several more inches of height on a commercial truck when it was loaded with a shipping container.
The cities out there seem to have happened without any planning!
Oh dear. You have touched on a pet pest of mine.
Why doesn’t the government assist transitioning veterans who would like to get a CDL????? The resources they provide are beyond pathetic. It’s a perfect transition for many after they get out. Some will continue as you did and some will move on but it provides a high paying job AND WE NEED more truckers right now.
Plus there is a clock on the GI bill. So if they become a trucker for a while but 3 years later want to use their GI bill for tech training or a degree they can’t. Lost because they need $5,000 to get their CDL.
It’s shameful the govt isn’t stepping up to help fill the need for truckers
Thanks for that detailed logistics breakdown.
Happy to help, MVM!
10-4, good buddy. 😁
‘Preciate it, bfkkb!
The coups are closed in front of ya…
What ya see us what your gonna get.
There was a full grown sittin in the middle at mile marker 37 over 3 went we went by.
Y’all be safe…
Going thata way!
This is LafnH20
We gone!
Thank you for the insights. And stay busy.
My pleasure, CBB!
And, Thank you!
Every situation is different, but for the most part, everyone who wants to stay busy can.
Secretary of Transportation Duffy has been doing an incredible job wrt cleaning up the Non-Domiciled CDL issues which had created a glut of individuals willing to drive, not only illegally, but for far less than compliant companies could afford to pay.
The loss of those drivers/trucks on the roads created what they call a “Capacity Crunch”.
“Capacity” is industry lingo for available trucks to haul freight.
What some call a driver shortage, is more accurately described as a shortage of cheap/questionable drivers/trucks.
As I mentioned earlier, high “tender rejection rates” is a result of removing those cheap/questionable drivers/trucks.
Those brokers/
shippers who were dependent on cheap/questionable drivers/trucks, are now vulnerable to compliant/dependable carriers who know they have the advantage (capacity crunch).
Example
Broker: we are offering $1.85 per mile to take this load to LA.
Compliant carrier:
Gonna need $2.85
Broker: Can’t do it
Compliant carrier: good luck.
Tick tock
Broker calls back: (cuz noone is biting)
We can go to $2.25
Compliant carrier:
It’s now $3.00
I’ve got 2 trucks left in your area.
You want a truck or not?
…
The US economy is rewiring as we speak.
Industrials (Building) is driving the economy, not the consumer.
Hence
“Flatbeds are on fire”
Truck drivers (who can) are not taking the cheap freight to LA, or Seattle, or Bangor.
They will not take cheap freight there because, they then have to take cheap freight to get the heck out of there. (Many Brokers/shippers profit margins depend on cheap rates)
They are positioning themselves to get freight that delivers where the growth is. (The midwest, by and large, atm) And those who produce, and those who want that product, want it yesterday (and in one piece) and they’ll pay to get the “capacity” locked in.
They will continue to do this until something that pays better comes along.(Business 101)
And it will.
Once those “big things” are built, they will need workers.
Workers have some folding money to throw around.
The 7/11’s and the diners and the Walmart super center will notice.
So will the home builders.
Etc
The Best is Yet to Come
Indeed
Best
Great news from someone in the trenches! I spoke to a rig driver 3 years ago and he told me how the truck companies had sold out to hiring the illegals to drive. I told him I heard rumors but to hear it from a real dude was devastating.
I know DHS is on this now but they need to swarm those f’ing states that are allowing this BS to continue.
Habla ingles? If not then get the F out of America!
As I understand it, the Mega carriers and the American Truckers Association (ATA) allegedly devised the “trucker shortage” thinking they would have to pay “less to” those “less than” drivers than they would to US citizens, thus lowering the rate they pay drivers across the board.
Mega carriers are run by insurance policies and lawyers. The “less than”, in many cases, could not meet the requirements set by the insurance policy and the lawyers. (Someone didnt do their due diligence)
So, the “less thans”, now on US soil, went with the only option they had…
The Cheap/questionable carriers.
Those carriers exploded.
Safety and accountability went in the toilet.
It mattered not, to the (not all) brokers and shippers.
It became a brokers market. Profits soared.
Over the years, anyone who had experience in a carriers market, was either moved away from brokerage (lateral or up) or moved on.
Now that the “less than” issue is being addressed, it is once again a carriers market (capacity).
There are very few left @the brokerages who have experience in a Carrier market.
There are, I think, some haircuts on the way.
Good to know. Thanks for the info, LafnH2O.
Just drove from the Heartland to the South, truck traffic was incredible!
Lots of flatbed and oversized loads as you stated.
Always a great sign for the economy
Gasoline by me just had a strong growth in price….
It hit $4.99.9 pr gallon…in the SW burbs of Chicago…a forty cent jump overnight…so yeah…strong energy./s
We did not have that kind of growth in price during the Obama years.
We had the same 40 cent jump here in Merryland. Today is the last day for the UAE to be stuck with OPEC limits. Tomorrow they can pump/sell as much oil as they care to. That should begin to have a positive effect on the global price of oil.
Hang tough, Aggiegirl! As Baileysdad below points out the end of the tunnel is in view. I drive a diesel so I feel the pain as well but I will bear it as long as I know President Trump has a plan, unlike Dementia Joe who had nothing but 3 brains cells left and let his puppet masters come THIS CLOSE to destroying everything we love about America.
Didn’t have much of anything good during the Obama years!
Yet, our GDP missed estimates by a mile yesterday.
Success is no mistake.
Sound the trumpets, Blast it everywhere as people need to see how things are improving. This should be the beginning of a series of great news regarding the economy, If Iran settles everything should explode up leading to the mid terms. Yep I’m a optimist.
Way to go Trump.
Dems heads are going to explode as we go into Q2, ahead of our 250 celebration year.
The Dems can sit on the sidelines and bitch and moan while the rest of us celebrate and rejoice our 250th birthday. And what a birthday it’s gonna be! 🥳🥳🥳🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
God Bless America!
I have a recent grad in IT. Very tough job market for them.
Unfortunately IT has become over saturated with college grads the past 15 years.
That’s a tough market to make good money now.
I was in the animation business years ago and because of 3d animated art plus the knowledge of computers my job was expendable.
You don’t need to know how to draw anymore to do that kind of work.
Very true, but there are jobs if one thinks out of the usual box. When a young friend of mine couldn’t find a job with his IT education, he went into hands on fiber work with adequate pay, and quickly was moved to a open “educated” position because of his education. Going in the back door to get a job he wanted worked for him. The ai build out requires work that cannot be outsourced.
Sadly, no problem if you are from India…
See my link above, these companies favor the Indians in such a manner that they set up a sorting in the website application process that rules out non Indians.
I’ve worked with Indian engineers and I’ve been treated by Indian doctors. Arrogant creatures!
Retired Magistrate here: Yes it is thanks to the IT individuals from India taking a lot of IT jobs here. My husband got riffed twice because of that and he finally retired and that happened 12 years ago; I am sure it is much worse now.
I was forced into early retirement 11 years ago because of DEI. I managed to find several short term gigs over the next 8 years until I finally threw in the towel. Age discrimination is alive and doing quite well in America!
Prove it.
He is welcome to live with you 🙂
There is this to worry about…the business games being played…hopefully, this will stop.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/civil-rights-division-sues-cloudera-excluding-us-workers-applying-high-paying-technology
Talk the lad/lass into a 2 year , hands on electrician course and working the whole time. Many many jobs out there for the PEC’s. Plumber Electrician Carpenter’s. Your IT grad has a lot of the electrician training already completed. Running wire for a youngster is easy money these days. Just saying! 🤷🏼♂️
IT without a direct connection to getting your hands dirty is a profession going the way of buggy whips.
Just bought a boat and am amazed at all the fish-finder screens, Bluetooth, networks, and automation in these things. A person needs IT just to set one up. Did any of you know that a modern boat with all the bells and whistles can be launched and remotely controlled to come back to the dock and pick you up?
How about all the networking and systems in modern homes and appliances? IT isn’t about sitting at a workstation anymore, it’s out in the real world where people touch things.
Beautiful lakes there!
A nice market rally today, all of my stocks are in the green today. Let’s keep it going.
Anyone who went heavy into energy when PDT took office probably isn’t complaining about high energy costs. We made 6 years income in the last 2 months
My requisite, albeit redundant, job-numbers comment… they are a farce. Cannot be trusted.
PS: I remember when 5% unemployment was considered “full employment”.
Yup. When I was laid off in 1981 it was around 11% but if you listen to some they say “boomers had it easy”. The early 80’s was tough.
I was job hunting back then. Every business had signs up, NO HIRING. NO APPLICATIONS.
In my neck of the woods (PNW ) the unemployment rate was closer to 20%.
If you had a job then you were fortunate until you wanted to buy a house. My first mortgage was 14%.
Yep we had it easy. 🤣🤣
Through the decade of the 80s, I was lucky to work a total of 12 months before my job was offshored.
4-6 months of unemployment & another paycut later I repeated the cycle.
Yup, with 2 kids to raise, I had it easy allright!
Donald Trump and the Path to a New Conservatism
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/10/new-conservatism-donald-trump-fh-buckley.html
These numbers are good. Gas prices since the war started are not. I paid $4.99 a gallon today in Ohio whereas they were on average under $3.00 on Feb. 28. President Trump should have declared victory and left a month ago. Our avowed objectives were met. Now we have mission creep to take all Iran’s enriched uranium and control the Strait. We won. Why get bogged down and hurt a robust economy. Time to get out. Leave the mopping up to Israel if regime change is its ultimate goal.
Ukraine never would have happened if Trump had been President. The U.S. spending on that proxy war is obscene. And is still going on. But there is a minor difference of the U.S. having troops involved in the fighting in Iran. My worry is not rising gas prices. My worry is losing the mid-terms and the election in 2028. The former makes President Trump a lame duck. The latter reopens our now-secured borders to another invasion. And a renewal of the insane Green New Deal. These gas prices are a wonderful Dem talking point. Like eggs before them. And thank Heaven for the miraculous recovery of our shutdown pilots. The propaganda if they had fallen into enemy hands is unthinkable. We achieved our goals in Iran. Getting every last ounce of uranium was not among them. Neither was keeping Hormuz open to shipping. President Trump is getting very bad advice. Declare victory and leave. Now.
Think Uranium One with the clinton foundation — where did that uranium end up? Be interesting to find out.
And this time next year Iran will be back to their old tricks, terrorizing their neighbors, developing a nuclear weapon(s) and murdering more of their citizens. Finish the job first, President Trump, and then declare victory.
Let’s not comparison shop who’s spending on wars was higher. It’s dismissive.
After the horrific Obumbler years, if my parents had not bought me out of mortgage slavery with an inheritance, I wouldn’t have made it through Creepy Groper Joe’s 20% inflation with a roof over my head on my measly 3-4% wage increases.
The problem is that inflation is cumulative. & while some people got real raises in PDJT’s 2 terms, many more didn’t.
I’m asking you to try to understand what others may be suffering through. Their economic pain is real.
Drive less!
It is approximately $6.00 a gallon ( U.S. Gal) here in Greater Vancouver B.C.
I would pay $8.00 if it ensured that President Trump was “ left alone to complete his last 2 1/2 years and save your Republic.
Thanks, Dekester. A bit of adjustment short term, is most certainly worth what is being accomplished these few weeks by PJDT & Co. Happy to see that you are still ‘aboard’.
Bingo.
I get the impression that a lot of people commenting here would have had nervous breakdowns had they been forced to endure doing WITHOUT gasoline AT ANY PRICE beyond an average of 3 to 4 gallons per week as our parents did in WW2.
The Iran theocracy’s beatdown is a necessary step (NOT optional) that PDJT must take in order to break the stranglehold on oil & trade through that region that Iran and its proxy terror organizations have caused under the globalists’ quiet direction and funding. All the gnashing of teeth and wailing over prices is so misplaced as the current energy costs are a temporary inconvenience in a much larger strategy.
Suggest everyone take a few minutes reading this Globalist Establishment article about oil prices versus supply or uncertainty. Oil is a manipulated commodity; prices being mostly controlled by globalists (Brent pricing) who oppose any change from what has been going on before Trump / MAGA began to extricate the U.S. from globalist control.
The average American drives 33 miles each day. If you drive a low mpg truck, it’s costing you $4-$8/day. It’s not great (I drive much more) but it’s not going to break the bank.
From my very small town perspective, a couple of things I’ve noticed. For years people were struggling to find just a low paying job, would apply to everything advertised, and couldn’t get a job. Now, I am seeing a lot of small, medium, and large businesses asking for help and actually hiring. That’s very positive.
On the fuel costs… I have a bet with myself that I won’t have to fill up the car again until gas prices go back down. LOL. I filled the tanks before prices went up and I still have 2 vehicles with half a tank. I consolidate any driving I have to do. That being said, I am not a commuter, but I do remember the Obama prices which were extremely high and that took a bite out of the budget. I have great empathy for the commuting public right now.
I commuted for 30 years. I feel their pain.
This is all well and good. Except for scraping together enough for food and gas. Until that’s under control at the end user point, it’s Pollyanna time for the family consumer.
Hassett is so cute. He looks like a 1-year-old baby.
Killing it!!! Thank you Trump and team. We’ll done.
This is WINNING!
President Trump is healing the economy faster than any of the low IQ “experts” predicted.
We will soon have new leadership at the Fed. The Iran Operation will soon be completed and oil prices will drop significantly.
President Trump will negotiate more trade deals that will further accelerate economic growth.
By September/October the United States will have the hottest economy in world history. Americans will have more money in our pockets and a lower cost of living.
There is nothing to whine about! President Trump is delivering the greatest winning streak of all time. Enjoy the ride!!
I am glad that the unemployment numbers are going down overall for the entire country. But, is there a breakdown by state? I have a sneaky suspicion that very blue states are seeing an increase in the unemployed.
They have always had the most unemployed, even when they are employed.
Jobs aren’t shabby either…
Imports of durable goods (equipment for the re-industrialization) have sharply risen to, given another indication of the plan coming together.
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/gdp-shocker-75-us-growth-q1-was-due-ai
And also today this article
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/here-come-cancellations-brookfield-backed-compass-pulls-out-major-northern-virginia-data
I just do not believe any of these “numbers “ of which you speak.
Pogo
SD mentioned the price increases due to the oil crises would eventually subside. However, prices won’t deflate so how does this resolve? Will wages increase enough to cancel out any inflationary effect on the cost of living?
Federal government spending is a huge portion of GDP, currently about 25%:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYONGDA188S
Fascinating how government fiat overspending grows the sovereign debt with increasing huge deficits, keeping GDP artificially buoyed while increasing the debt-to-GDP problem at the same time.
https://fortune.com/2026/04/22/federal-fiscal-folly-trump-budget-debt-cbo-hanke-walker/
The problem is not just deficits driving debt, its printing fiat. The Fed creates fiat out of thin air to hand to government by “buying government debt”, which never gets fully paid back. All illusion, devaluing the fiat to undermine the commoners.
All working with other managed decline mechanisms steering the US and West down, as the East continues to build real long-term strength: Industry.
But we are happily reassured by rosy GDP figures here, putting a positive spin on the superficial metrics. Thank you.
“…we are happily reassured by rosy GDP figures here, putting a positive spin on the superficial metrics.’
Why is that?
Part of a pattern.
Patterns reveal background.
I see many comments on how the US economy is so strong. We have not seen fuel prices grow like this since obama?
I am paying $2.00 more per gallon for gas than I was paying in February. Please explain how that is going to help the working people in this country. I remember what I voted for and “This aint it” How long will it take for food prices to follow? I think this administration is pissing away a great win. Too bad.
This is my concern. Temporary pain at the pump for the greater goal is tolerable but it drives up the cost of everything. I just want to know how high gas prices will go, what will be the overall inflationary effect (an additional 2%? … 5%? … 10%?). and by what percentage will our paychecks increase once things get fixed. Will pay increases offset the baked in higher costs of living?
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That is all
goodgreat news.But what about the national debt?
I know that a thriving economy is part of the answer, but is it the entire answer?